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With the Midland Metro, do you buy tickets on board from the conductor? I could have sworn I saw something to that effect on the Network West Midlands website, but I can't find it again. I'm thinking of arriving at Birmingham Snow Hill by train (not possessing a ticket valid on the tram)...

Does the Kangaroo ticket you can buy for train, tram and bus in Nottingham extend on the tram to Hucknall (because it is outside the Greater Nottingham City area)? The map given by the NET site seems to indicate that it is outside of the area ,yet the map from the National Rail website shows the...

I was half-thinking of travelling from Yorton to Stoke-on-Trent and return on Thursday for the hell of it (and so I get to use a request stop and my nearest station as the crow flies, according to Bing:)). I can find an Anytime Day Return for £12.30. But if my return train gets delayed and I...

Can the Merseyrail Daysaver be purchased from Chester station (using either TVMs or the ticket office)? I heard about the destination being northwirrallines or something similar; is this still true? And does it still say Single on it despite it being valid for unlimited travel the whole day? And...

Does anyone know if next weekend (3rd/4th March) if the BWirral Transport Museum is open as well as the Birkenhead Tramway (the latter's web site is here but I can find little about the former)? And what does it mean when it says they are operating a limited service? (I'm aware about the problem...

Do they still split 2x2-car 158s at Machynlleth for this service? I ask because looking at National Rail enquiries it seems that one train goes from Birmingham International-Shrewsbury-Machynlleth-Aberystwyth and a separate train starts from Machynlleth to go round the Cambrian Coast to...

I've noticed that some trains on this route tonight seem to be cut short to Crewe. I looked for alternative trains from Manchester Piccadilly to Shrewsbury and got one via Wolverhampton. Should this problem be cleared by tomorrow (intending to take 0955 from Shrewsbury)? And if I held tickets...

I happened to discover that there are engineering works between Shrewsbury and Crewe on the weekend of 7th/8th Jan and Cardiff Central to Manchester Piccadilly trains via Shrewsbury and Crewe will be diverted. Does anyone know what route to expect?

I was trying to look at Groupsave prices on Arriva Trains Wales on 18th February 2012 from Shrewsbury to Tywyn, and I found two pages giving contradictory information here and here. And I tried searching for tickets with either 3 or 4 people and adding GROUPSAVE 3 or GROUPSAVE 4 and it...

I've bben on the Croydon Tramlink and know that they use request stops - you press a button if you want to get off at the next stop (similar to on buses). I don't think you need to stick out your hand if you want to get on though (I presume the driver just stops if he sees anybody). However...

Are they any current service trains (not railtours) that change locomotive en route besides the Caledonian Sleeper? Just asking out of curiosity, because changes of locomotive used to happen when part of the route was electrified but not all (so changing from electric to diesel locomotive or...

Are there any heritage railways in the UK with branches? I think that would add something different to the experience, particularly if there is a single-track branch with no run-round facilities at the terminus (they could use a steam auto-coach or a DMU for the branch). Would it be feasible...

I've noticed that it's common on steam-hauled railtours to put a 47 on the back for shunting duties if there is ever a need to reverse the train. I don't know why they couldn't top and tail the train with two steam locomotives. And if a train goes into a terminus, it has to be turned to have the...

I just wondered if it is possible/allowed to ride 'short distances' on railtours - for example, I spotted this tour here, which goes from London Paddington to Shrewsbury and returns. Living near Shrewsbury, would it be possible just to go on the tour, say, between Shrewsbury and Hereford and...

Yesterday I intended to join the West Midlands Day Ranger meet but missed everybody and (since I already had the Day Ranger) ended up going alone. I first went from Shrewsbury to Birmingham New Street (and got my first taste of the Arriva Trains Wales refurbished 158), where I arrived a bit...

Just thinking: will we ever see a mainline railtour with a class 101 or similar DMU or alternatively an EMU from the same era (lots of people would remember the later in the Southern 3rd rail electrified region)? I'm sure people would go for it (lots of them knocking about on heritage railways)...

When I went from Shrewsbury to Leeds for the WY challenge yesterday (20th August), I used the 0610 from Shrewsbury to Manchester Piccadilly arriving at 0818 which ran via Chester and Warrington Bank Quay (usually trains from Shrewsbury to Manchester Piccadilly go via Crewe), and then the 0842...

Just a hypothetical question: Would a passenger ever be allowed on an ECS move if they were there at the right time and asked the crew? I ask because I know somebody who's been on a bus when it was returning 'empty' to the depot. (I would think it would have to be a really jobsworth driver to...

I was wondering if there were any tours with the locomotive that was used in the Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts Express, which is actually GWR 4900 Class 5792 Olton Hall. It's in the National Railway Museum in York, but does it do any running as the Hogwarts Express (i.e. with the Hogwatrs...

Today I was on the 1924 from Birmingham New Street to Shrewsbury, which was formed of two 158s. The train went on to Chester, but only the front two carriages went beyond Shrewsbury (they I presume split the units at Shrewsbury). What is the purpose of splitting the units (the second one does...